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Trivia #1063758
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Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.

-1. Which Supreme Court Justice wrote the Miranda Warning?
-2. In Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches an Egg, what was Horton?
-3. What type of crime scene evidence is used in "forensic palynology"?
-4. Who was the first vice president of the United States to be elected in a separate vote by the Electoral College? (G C)
-5. Which planet in our solar system is the densest?
-6. Who is the only person to win a Nobel Prize for Literature based on his ability to write and speak?
-7. In the hard-boiled world of detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, what is a flivver?
-8. According to a Victorian rhyme, what should a bride wear in her shoe on the day of her wedding?
-9. How was Maude related to the Bunker family?
-10. Does the Adam in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling painting have a navel?



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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063760
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9. I think she was Edith's cousin.


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8. A penny smile


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063768
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7. a small (Ford?) car smile

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Re: Trivia [Re: Sondi] #1063774
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2. an elephant wave

Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063777
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10 - i think he does ...

Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063779
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Great answers! #8 is close, but not correct. wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063782
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6. Stephen Hawking think


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Nice try, but nope. grin


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3. Evidence that looks the same backward and forward? grin


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063837
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Nope, that's palindromology. Try again, Bob! lol


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063869
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3. footprints, as in the mud?


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1063882
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Footprints could conceivably be studied for it, but that's not the answer. smile


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3. how 'bout fossils then think


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Nope grin


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Hmmm...okay. How about evidence left behind by the suspect such as personal belongings or random body parts think


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6 - taking a stab at winston churchill ?

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8. a silver sixpence


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Good stab, niteowl, and well done Flo! wave

Random body parts? lol Keep trying, Cue.


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6. from footprints, I'm guessing spores. duh


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Yes! Spores, pollens and minerals. Great guess! wave


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1. Earl Warren smile


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Yes! smile


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4. George Clinton in 1804. V.P to Thomas Jefferson. wave


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